I thought it was pretty good. Granted, it completely forgot it was a holiday special about halfway through (and what concessions it made to the conceit were half-hearted anyway), but somehow it worked. It gave off the strangest vibe of being an episode from somewhere in the middle of a Toy Story TV series, as if there's an alternate universe ABC that airs it every week and this one fell through a crack in space to our reality. It wasn't the greatest on its own terms, but it did make me want to see more.

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